hipster
The origin and history of hipster.
Etymology
From "hip" (fashionable, in the know) plus the suffix "-ster." First used in the 1920s, then reshaped in the 1940s from "hepster" to describe someone plugged into the latest jazz and fashion scene.
Class of 1920
hipster first entered the language around 1920. Other words from the same year:
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